Troy Conrad performs at comedy festivals worldwide including Montreal, Dublin, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Chicago, Vancouver, and Austria. He directed the Funny or Die series, "Runyon: Just Above Sunset" starring Eddie Pepitone, and is the creator and co-producer with Paul Provenza on the improvised stand-up show, Set List: Stand-up Without A Net. After training in the improv and writing programs at Second City Los Angeles, Upright Citizen's Brigade, and iO West, he created the live show and DVD "The Comedy Jesus Show" which also toured worldwide. A former evangelical fundamentalist, he became an atheist to overcome an addiction to being liked.WEBSITE | BOOK

Comedian Dan Telfer@MIDNIGHT, THE PETE HOLMES SHOW, THE ONION, SECOND CITY, JUST FOR LAUGHS MONTREAL

Dan Telfer has been writing and performing comedy for over 15 years. As a writer for The Onion he wrote both editorial content and the web series The Onion´s Extremely Accurate History of the Internet. As a stand-up comic he has toured as an opener for Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt. He was selected to perform at the Chicago Just For Laughs Festival's Best of the Fest show, the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival's Talk of the Fest show, and the coveted New Faces of Comedy showcase of both festivals. In addition to The Onion his writing has appeared in Paste Magazine, The A.V. Club, and the official book based on the TV show Mad Men: The Illustrated World. He is perhaps known best for his stand-up chunk "The Best Dinosaur," which became a runaway viral video hit and earned him a massive internet following.WEBSITE | | BOOK

Comedian and Writer, Laurie Kilmartin has performed at the Montreal, Aspen and Edinburgh comedy festivals. Most known for her standup on Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel and Showtime, Laurie has appeared on Best Week Ever, the Today Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show and Fox & Friends AND Oprah. Currently a staff writer on Late Night with Conan O´Brien, last year she was a finalist in Season 8 of NBC's Last Comic Standing!BOOK

Comedian Matt KirshenCOMEDY CENTRAL, LATE LATE SHOW, JIMMY FALLON, JUST FOR LAUGHS, LAST COMIC STANDING FINAL

London born Matt Kirshen's precision wit has already earned him an impressive reputation on the international comedy circuit. Most recently his appearances as a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing has earned him a whole new host of fans in the United States and a surprising number of other countries worldwide.He has also recorded a half-hour special for the World Stands Up, Comedy Central, appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and has acclaimed festival appearances at Montreal, Kilkenny, Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and Amsterdam and Edinburgh.His debut CD, "I Guess We'll Never Know" was named in Punchline Magazine's top 10 albums of 2009 and his hit appearance at the 2008 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal resulted in no fewer than 4 of his lines appearing in the Montreal Gazette's round up of their best jokes of the fest.WEBSITE | | MYSPACE |
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